Judo beatings 'worst sports crisis'
- Published: 5 Feb 2013 at 14.44
- Online news: Sports
TOKYO - Allegations that the national women's judo coach used a bamboo sword to beat his athletes, including some Olympians, are the "gravest crisis" to hit Japanese sport, the education minister said.
Japan's women's judo head coach Ryuji Sonoda bows as he announces his resignation, in Tokyo, on January 31, 2013, after allegations emerged he had beaten his athletes with wooden swords.
Former world champion Ryuji Sonoda resigned in humiliation last week after admitting that claims he had physically and emotionally abused 15 of the country's top sportswomen were "more or less true".
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